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- This QUUDCD, which is a fast uudecoder written in assembly language.
- This program will take one or many uuencoded file[s], and uudecode
- it[/them] into the original binary file. The initial input file may be
- entered on the command line, or else the program will prompt the user for
- it. Any drive or path may be specified for the input file, but only to
- 80 characters (which should be more than enough). IMPORTANT: If there
- is more than one portion to the encoded file, they must all be in the
- same directory, and they must follow a particular naming convention,
- explained below. The output file will be written to the current logged
- drive, and this feature cannot be overridden. There are no command line
- switches. Usage is:
-
- QUUDCD [drive][path][filename.ext]
-
- For multipart encoded files, this program will search for the next
- encoded file portion according to these rules: The first uuencoded file
- may have any DOS-legal name and extension (or even no extension). The
- second uuunecoded file *MUST* have a '1' as the last character of the
- filename -- NOT the extension. Or, if the last character of the filename
- of the first file WAS a number (ANY number -- whether '1' or something
- else, the last character of the second filename must be one number
- higher. Subsequent files must have filenames ending in numbers of
- ascending order. All other filename characters must be the same, and all
- files must have the same extension.
-
- Moreover, this program utilizes a recursive technique to increment
- filename numbers, and is capable of "rolling around" when the last digit
- is a '9', and adjusting a higher order digit. It is even able to
- "extend" a filename, such as from '999.UUE' to '1000.UUE'. It will not,
- however, extend a filename to more than 8 characters (excluding the
- extension). Probably, the easiest thing to do is to name multipart files
- simply by number, such as '1', '2', '3', etc.
-
- Here are some examples of filenames that will work:
-
- File: Ex. 1: Ex. 2: Ex. 3: Ex.4: Ex. 5:
- ---- ---------- --------- ----- ---- ---------
- 1st: abcdef.uue file1.uue 14998 999 rstu9.xxx
- 2nd: abcde1.uue file2.uue 14999 1000 rst10.xxx
- 3rd: abcde2.uue file3.uue 15000 1001 rst11.xxx
- etc. ... ... ... ... ...
-
- Here are a couple that won't:
-
- File: Ex. 1: Ex. 2:
- ---- ---------- ----------
- 1st: abcdef.uu1 file-a.uue
- 2nd: abcdef.uu2 file-b.uue
- 3rd: abcdef.uu3 file-c.uue
- etc. ... ...
-
-
- This program is an "intelligent" program. It is able to decode uuencoded
- files of any length (in addition to multiple files, as outlined above),
- and even to strip out spurious lines in the main body of the encoded
- portion. Thus, it is possible to concatenate multipart postings to a
- single file (without removing headers and .signatures), and this program
- will successfully decode it. Also, the headers and .signatures need not
- be edited out of individual multipart encoded files. The encoded files
- may have CRLF line end pairs, or just the single UNIX (tm) LF character.
-
- This program has been designed to use large buffers, so as not to cause
- undue wear and tear on disk drives. It also allocates memory
- dynamically, and it requires a maximum of slightly more than 64K when
- decoding large files. If you have limited memory, or a large chunk of
- memory dedicated to resident applications, you might not have enough
- memory to run this program.
-
- This is version 2.1, which incorporates several improvements suggested by
- David Kirschenbaum (kirsch@braggvax.ARPA). Also, the 1% of the code that
- does 99% of the work has been tweaked to make it even faster. Please
- note that there is a Copyright (C) 1988, 1989 on the program by Theodore
- A. Kaldis. The program may be distributed freely, without charge.
-
- UNIX is a trademark of AT&T